Yang Zilu personally took the knife and trained fifty cavalry soldiers for three days. Yang Zilu found that although bantams are not fast and have many shortcomings of short stature, they have a very gratifying characteristic. That is, the strength of bantam horses is wasted, probably because they live in the mountains and need to climb the mountains frequently.

Yang Zilu immediately thought of the long-standing armored cavalry in history, and Yang Zilu immediately ordered people to gather animal skins and leather at any cost to make armor for bantam horses, and the head of the bantam horse was protected by a narrow piece of iron. But even so, it is only to give each bantam the front half of the body protection, and can only be regarded as a light cavalry among the heavy cavalry.

For the riders, Yang Zilu even equipped each rider with a spear, a small round shield wrapped in iron sheets, a large knife or a battle axe. For this reason, Kan Pingtian was so angry that he almost scolded his mother, because the broadsword and prisoners of war in these equipment were originally intended to be provided to his men. But now that Yang Zilu has shamelessly appropriated it to the cavalry, how can people not be angry?

In terms of armor, Yang Zilu originally prepared everyone to be equipped with plate armor, which can be regarded as heavy cavalry! But the wishes are good, and the reality is cruel. A set of plate armor requires thirty catties of wrought iron to build, not counting some scrapped in the process of building. At present, the Ordnance Superintendent can only produce more than 20 catties of wrought iron every day at most, that is to say, if it is to be built, with the current manpower and material resources of the Ordnance Superintendent, it will take two months to build it with all its might. The problem is that the ordnance superintendent still has to prepare weapons for the other soldiers, and it must be known that the war is only two and a half months away.

Especially spears and short swords, after a big battle, I don't know how many spears will be broken, how many short swords will be broken, and how many arrows will be shot. These must be prepared in advance, not to say that everyone can fight a hundred battles with a spear and a short sword. This is reality, not the "Age of Empires" and "Total War" in the game, and after making a soldier, as long as you don't die, you don't have to spend money to repair equipment, and the arrows are infinite, and you can't shoot them all.

Yang Zilu had no choice but to use iron-inlaid armor to equip the cavalry, that is, to sew iron plate heart guards in some key positions of the leather armor. It's better than just a piece of leather.

After four days of busyness, Yang Zilu returned to the same place, the three captains of the Nine Kui Division, Yu Yu, Black Bear, and Xia Hu Roar stood curiously beside Yang Zilu, and there were a group of giggling children standing around, staring at Yang Zilu with wide black grunt eyes, looking at Yang Zilu curiously, they didn't know what Yang Zilu was busy for four days ago.

Especially the three of Yu Yu, Xia Hu Roar, and Black Bear, they jumped up and down for war preparations. As a result, Yang Zilu still occupies ten slaves to be responsible for cutting sedges that they see as useless. If it weren't for Yang Zilu's hard work, I'm afraid these ten slaves would have either been transferred to the mine to mine, or they would have gone to the ordnance prison to push the bellows.

Yang Zilu didn't care what others thought, she personally removed the stone and picked up the pressed wooden board, revealing a slightly uneven surface, as if countless small yellow pieces of paper were stacked together in a disorderly manner. And there is a little bit of gray and white variegation on this papyrus, which makes people look uncomfortable.

Yang Zilu couldn't help frowning, I don't know what went wrong with this papermaking? And when it comes to success, it also succeeds, isn't this paper? Although a little ugly. But if it doesn't work, it's not successful, how can people write if it's uneven?

"What is this?" The first time I saw the straw paper, Yu Yu and others were not as picky as Yang Zilu, looking at the straw paper and asking curiously.

"It's straw!" Yang Zilu casually took the drafting paper in his hand, prepared to hand it to Yu Yu, and spoke.

Suddenly, Yang Zilu found out where the problem was, the paper was too thick, about two or three millimeters thick. It's almost as thick as the paper used in the carton! Yang Zilu didn't care about giving the straw paper to the royal guard. I picked it up and touched it a few times, and said, "It's not dry yet!" And there are a lot of impurities, which should be filtered! Well, you can soak in water instead, impurities will naturally precipitate downward, and then boil, and the next time you add pulp to each filter plate, you should reduce the amount! ”

"Master! Master, you haven't told us what it is? There was a hint of suppressed dissatisfaction in his voice.

"It's paper! To be correct, it should be called straw paper! Yang Zilu said.

"Paper? Papyrus? What's the use of that? Could it be used to make armor? Yu Yu looked at the thick straw paper, and his eyes lit up.

"Can this be used as armor?" Xia Hu roared and said in disbelief, he really couldn't think of it, this sedge is soft, it's a little tough, can this thing be made into armor?

"Boom!" The black bear directly pulled out the black iron short sword at his waist and said, "Can you say that it is useless in your mouth, don't you know if you try it!" ”

When Yang Zilu heard this, he was sweating profusely on his forehead, and his ignorance was terrible! Stopped the black bear who was about to split the straw paper, and said, "Don't make a fuss, this straw paper is for writing!" It's not as thick as bamboo slips, and it's a lot cheaper than linen, so it can be sold for a lot of money if it's made! ”

The black bear didn't understand anything, but the last sentence was extremely clear, and it could be sold for a lot of money.

If Yang Zilu knew, I am afraid that he would be even more depressed, no matter how many words he said, he was just letting the black bear understand six words!

It is Yu Yu who understands best, not that he is the smartest, but that he was sent by Yang Zilu to teach, and he understands the pain the most. Ordinary bamboo slips are not heavy, that is, more than one catty, two catties, and a short sword is only four catties. The problem is that if you hold a roll of bamboo slips for a long time, and you often flip through the information, it will be even more troublesome. Reviewing the homework made Yu Yu even more depressed.

In fact, the biggest frustration of the royal view still comes from Yang Zilu, Yang Zilu often teaches the royal vision, and the royal view is responsible for teaching the children in the tribe. Some people wondered, why didn't Yang Zilu directly teach the children in the tribe? The child is too naughty, and there are fifty or sixty people who teach, where is there a simple person who only teaches the royal view, so the inevitable tragedy of the royal view.

"Master, can this thing really write?" Yu Yu took out a knife from his bosom that was specially used for carving on bamboo slips, and said with a slight excitement. Looks like I'm ready to experiment.

Yang Zilu patted his head, shook his head and said, "This is not carved with a knife, with a brush!" Do you know what a brush is not? By the way, the day before yesterday I remember that someone hunted a wolf? Take the hair from the wolf's tail to make a brush! Unexpectedly! I'm also going to have a good day! Ha! Ha! ”

Fortunately, Kan Pingtian is not here, otherwise he would definitely despise Yang Zilu fiercely. Because in this era, high-end brushes are generally made of rabbit hair, not wolf hair.

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